#Kwon Hae-hyo

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By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo, 2024)

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강변 호텔 / Hotel by the River Hong Sang-soo. 2018

Hotel 1312 Bukhangang-ro, Hwado-eup, Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea See in map

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Fukuoka (2019)

Dir. Zhang Lu

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당신 얼굴 앞에서 [In Front of Your Face] (Hong Sang-soo - 2021)

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Under the Queen's Umbrella

This is a beautiful series. I smiled, laughed and cried. This is the story of a mother who loves her children and will fight to the teeth to protect them. As a mother myself, I could understand her feelings and her actions. Queen Im Hwa Ryeong is an intelligent woman, street smart, and she has learned to play the politics game to protect her five sons. He eldest, the Crown Prince and his own wife, little boy and his youngest on the way are her pride and joy. He is the model child everyone would want to have. She worries about his health.

When the king decides to look for a substitute for the Crown Prince's assistant, the Queen will have to prepare her other four carefree sons so they can show they are just as worthy as their other half-brothers. But as she tries to do so without alarming them, she runs around inside and outside the palace looking for them.

Her second son, Grand Prince Seong Nam, was taken away from her when he was born. She was able to bring him home after years of living outside like a commoner. He feels like an outsider inside the palace and likes to train outside, but he loves his brothers, and cherishes his relationship with his older brother.

Grand Prince Muan is a young man in love with a woman of low birth. His mother is constantly getting him out of her home and bring him back to the palace.

Grand Prince Kye Seong is a quiet young man who brings peace to his mother but carries a secret that could kill him.

Grand Prince Il Young is in his early teens and too young to care about politics.

As the political intrigues unravel, we see her relationship with her sons strengthen. This a woman who will protect, not only her children, but the king's other sons. . . She is strong and flexible, accepting and a problem solver.

I liked her relationship with her sons. How she interacts with each and gives them the support they need while also giving them wings. I also like her relationship with the King. Out of all his wives, the audience can see a special bond between them. He values her opinion and respects her. She respects him, although there are things she will always keep away from him in order to protect her sons. She is indeed her son's secret keeper and their support.

I really love what the title symbolizes. The umbrella she puts over her boys' heads when it rains and what it all means.

I truly love this story!

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WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)

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Peninsula (2020)

Peninsula isn’t as fresh, frightening, or memorable as Train to Busan. It also doesn’t quite follow through with its premise but makes up for it with something I bet you’d never see out of a zombie movie set in Korea: Mad Max-style action!

Four years after a zombie outbreak in South Korea, former Marine Corps Captain Jung-Seok (Gang Dong-won) and his widowed brother-in-law Chul-min (Kim Do-yoon) are offered a life-altering job. Inside the undead-riddled Peninsula is an abandoned truck filled with US$20 million. They've been hired to retrieve it as part of a team of four who will enter South Korea at night - when the darkness will hide them from the innumerable ghouls. Once inside, they're shocked to discover survivors in the ruins.

If you’re looking for a heist movie with zombies in it, you want Army of the Dead. Peninsula starts with the team going in to grab the money but within minutes, half of them are dead. Chul-min is taken captive by crazed militants who’ve established a society in the ruins of the city, while Jung-Seok is rescued by Min-Jung (Lee Jung-hyun), her father Kim (Kwon Hae-hyo), and her two daughters, Joon (Lee Re), and Yu-Jin (Lee Ye-won). Now, the ghouls are the least of everyone’s worries. Unit 631 roams the streets, looking for any strays to put in their arena. There, the people have to run away from hungry flesh-eaters while the soldiers bet on who will die. Chul-min needs a way out ASAP. Unfortunately, the satellite phone he would’ve used to call his Chinese mobster bosses has been confiscated. Now Jung-Seok needs to save his brother, get the phone, get the money and leave with the help of the family who rescued him… but things are on the verge of getting dicey. See, Jung-Seok’s met Min-Jung before. She asked him for help four years ago when the zombie plague began. He refused and left her behind. Oops.

As a zombie movie, Peninsula disappoints. They don’t really play a big part in the film except at the beginning and then at the end. Mostly, this is an apocalyptic film. People scrambling for food, cobbling together equipment, setting up dodgy institutions where might makes right, that kind of thing. And of course, there’s the driving. If you’re going to check out Peninsula, it should be for the movie’s best scene, a spectacular race in the city featuring dozens of vehicles with our heroes in the lead and everyone trying to turn them into roadkill. Whereas the rest of the film barely uses zombies, this part of Peninsula brings the two genres together. The dead are obstacles to be dodged, they’re also weapons to use against those pursuing you. It’s fast-paced, expertly coordinated and loads of fun.

Plenty is going on in the film, which makes the nearly two-hour running time go by plenty fast… except at the end. During the conclusion, Peninsula tries to do too much. It pours on the drama as people have to make heroic sacrifices, there are double-crosses that make escape impossible, hope is renewed, then dashed, then renewed again, and so on. Some of this should’ve been cut, not only so we could end on the high we got from the driving scenes but also so the cheese could be kept at a minimum. Still, it works more than it doesn’t.

Peninsula is not a memorable zombie film and when we examine Seoul Station (the prequel to Train to Busan) we see that the terrific 2016 picture that spawned this franchise was more of an anomaly than a revival of the genre. You can still enjoy this follow-up if you love zombies and you want a bit of something new but anything more than the price of a rental is too much. (Original Korean with English Subtitles, May 21, 2021)

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PARASSYTE : THE GREY // KDRAMA DİZİ YORUMU

UYARI : Yazılar genel olarak spoiler içerebilir. İçermeyedebilir.

İmdb puanı: 7,3 Benim puanım: 8

Drama: Parasyte: The Grey

Hangul: 기생수: 더 그레이

Director: Yeon Sang-Ho

Writer: Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga), Yeon Sang-Ho

Episodes: 6

Date: 2024

Cast: Jeon So-Nee, Koo Kyo-Hwan, Lee Jung-Hyun, Kwon Hae-Hyo, Yoon Hyun-Gil, Kim In-Kwon

İzlerken kendimi hem merak hem de tedirginlik duygularıyla sarılı bulduğum bir dizi. Hem distopik bir atmosfer yaratmada hem de insanoğlunun en karanlık taraflarını sorgulamada oldukça etkileyici bir yapım. Günümüzde teknolojinin ve bilimin geldiği çıkmaz sokakları, diziye bir anlamda korkutucu bir öngörü kazandırıyor.

Dizi, adından da anlaşılacağı gibi, insan bedenine sızan ve zihni ele geçiren parazitlerle savaşı konu alıyor. Ana karakterlerimizden Jeong Su-in (Jeon So-nee), soğukkanlı ve mantığını korumaya çalışan bir bilim insanı olarak hikayeye giriyor. Su-in’in en etkileyici yanı, olaylara saf bir korku ya da panik yerine rasyonel bir bakış açısı getirmesi. Ama bu rasyonelliği bile, parazitlerin giderek yayılışı ve insanlığı yitirme tehdidiyle sıkışıyor.

Diğer tarafta ise Seol Kang-woo (Koo Kyo-hwan) karakterimiz var; o daha çok duyguları ve başkaldırılarıyla hareket eden biri. Kang-woo'nun olaylara yaklaşımı, dizinin sadece bilimsel bir kaos olmadığını, aynı zamanda çok derin bir ahlaki sorgulama barındırdığını gösteriyor.

Dizinin atmosferi kesinlikle muhteşem. Sinematografi, karanlık ve umutsuz bir geleceği gözler önüne sererken, bir yandan da dünyanın çöküşünü hissettiriyor. Mekan kullanımı ve prodüksiyon tasarımı bu karanlık hikayeye çok iyi hizmet ediyor. Özellikle parazitlerin ortaya çıkış sahneleri ve insan bedenini ele geçirme anları, tüyler ürpertici bir etki yaratıyor.

Fakat, dizinin yavaş ilerleyen yapısı bazı izleyiciler için sorun olabilir. Hikaye zaman zaman biraz durağan hissettirse de, bu yavaşlık aslında karakterlerin çıkmazlarını ve insanlığın yüzleştiği ahlaki soruları daha iyi kavramamıza olanak tanıyor. Dizinin asıl gücü de burada yatıyor: korkuyu, dehşeti ve çaresizliği sadece görsel şoklarla değil, derin bir ruhsal şokla yansıtıyor.

Oyunculuk performanslarına gelince, Jeon So-nee ve Koo Kyo-hwan kesinlikle dikkat çekiciydi. Jeon So-nee'nin Jeong Su-in’e kattığı derinlik ve hümanizm, karakteri sadece bir bilim insanı olmaktan çıkarıp izleyicinin kolayca empati kurabileceği biri haline getiriyor. Koo Kyo-hwan ise Kang-woo’ya getirdiği dinamizmle hikayeye renk katıyor. Onların arasındaki kimya, dizinin bazen yavaş hissettiren temposunu dengeleyen en önemli unsurlardan biri.

Son olarak, Parasyte: The Grey, dünya çapında tanınan Japon mangası Parasyte’tan esinlenmiş olsada, kendi kimliğini oluşturmayı başarıyor. Manga uyarlamaları sıkça eleştirilir çünkü çoğu zaman orijinal eserin büyüsünü tam anlamıyla yansıtamaz. Ama bu dizi, hem kaynak materyale sadık kalmayı hem de kendi orijinal hikayesini anlatmayı başarıyor.

Genel olarak, Parasyte: The Grey, bilim kurgu ve korku sevenler için güçlü bir yapım olmuş. Belki herkese hitap etmeyebilir ama distopik hikayelerden ve derin ahlaki sorulardan hoşlananlar için kesinlikle kaçırılmaması gereken bir yapım.

While watching this drama, I found myself wrapped in a mixture of curiosity and unease. It’s a deeply impactful production—both in how it builds a dystopian atmosphere and how it confronts the darkest aspects of human nature. The show gives off a chilling sense of foresight by reflecting the dead-end roads of current technological and scientific progress.

As the title suggests, the story revolves around a war against parasites that invade the human body and take control of the mind. One of our main characters, Jeong Su-in (Jeon So-nee), is introduced as a cool-headed scientist who tries to maintain a rational perspective. What makes her so compelling is her ability to approach terrifying events with logic rather than pure panic. But even her reason is pushed to its limits as the parasite outbreak intensifies and the threat of losing humanity looms closer.

On the other side, we have Seol Kang-woo (Koo Kyo-hwan), a character driven more by emotion and rebellion. His approach highlights that this isn't just scientific chaos—it’s also a profound moral reckoning. His rawness contrasts sharply with Su-in’s analytical mindset, which brings a compelling duality to the narrative.

The atmosphere of the show is outstanding. The cinematography paints a bleak and hopeless future while allowing the audience to truly feel the collapse of the world. Set design and production serve the dark storyline perfectly. The scenes where parasites reveal themselves and take over human bodies are especially bone-chilling.

However, the slow pacing might be a downside for some viewers. The narrative can feel a bit stagnant at times, but this slowness actually gives space to fully grasp the characters’ struggles and the ethical dilemmas humanity faces. That’s where the real strength of the show lies—it conveys fear, horror, and helplessness not just through visuals, but with profound emotional impact.

As for the performances, both Jeon So-nee and Koo Kyo-hwan were striking. Jeon So-nee brings a depth and humanity to Jeong Su-in that turns her from a mere scientist into someone the viewer can empathize with. Koo Kyo-hwan adds vitality and complexity to Kang-woo, and their chemistry is one of the key factors that balances out the show’s sometimes slow rhythm.

Finally, Parasyte: The Grey—although inspired by the globally known Japanese manga Parasyte—successfully builds its own identity. Adaptations of manga often face criticism for failing to capture the magic of the original work. But this series manages to stay faithful to its source while also crafting an original narrative.

Overall, Parasyte: The Grey is a strong recommendation for fans of science fiction and horror. It may not appeal to everyone, but for those who enjoy dystopian storytelling and layered moral questions, it’s definitely a must-watch.

Raven Melus

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Bourbon, Wein und Makgeolli oder: Großes Kino

Die 75. Berlinale biegt auf ihre Zielgerade ein. Mit Richard Linklater, Radu Jude und Hong Sang-soo präsentierten einige bereits ausgezeichnete Filmemacher ihre neuen Werke im Wettbewerb. Dabei erzählen sie auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise mitreißende Geschichten von Menschen, denen der Alkohol zum Verhängnis wird.

Die 75. Berlinale biegt auf ihre Zielgerade ein. Mit Richard Linklater, Radu Jude und Hong Sang-soo präsentierten einige bereits ausgezeichnete Filmemacher ihre neuen Werke im Wettbewerb. Dabei erzählen sie auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise mitreißende Geschichten von Menschen, denen der Alkohol zum Verhängnis wird. Continue reading Bourbon, Wein und Makgeolli oder: Großes Kino

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By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo, 2024)

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Bogotá: A Cidade dos Sonhos Perdidos | CLIPE OFICIAL | Netflix

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New York Film Festival 2024:

By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo), 2024

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A Traveler's Needs ('12'): Arthouse Film That, For Me, Typifies 'Style Over Substance'.

One Mann's Movies FIlm Review of "A Traveler's Needs". Like watching Korean paint dry. 1.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “A Traveler’s Needs” (2024) (From the 2024 London Film Festival). Original Title: Yeohaengjaui pilyo. Well, it had to end at some point this week. I’ve enjoyed all of the films in this first (press-preview) week of the LFF up to this point. But I’m afriad I did not enjoy “A Traveler’s Needs” at all! Bob the Movie Man Rating: “A Traveler’s Needs” Plot…

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당신 얼굴 앞에서 [In Front of Your Face] (Hong Sang-soo - 2021)

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Parasyte The Grey Release Date & Context

‘Parasyte the Grey’ is the up-and-coming horror K-Drama that is turning heads worldwide. We have been witnessing some unique and amazing horror-thriller shows from South Korea in recent years in the form of – Sweet Home Season 1 & Season 2 with Season 3 scheduled for release this year, Gyeongseong Creature, A Killer Paradox, and A Shop for Killers. So, the upcoming title is something to be excited about.